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Summer 2008
Work on Cravens carriage 1541

Perhaps less in the public eye than work that goes on at our base at Whitehead is the carriage maintenance and restoration work that our volunteers undertake at Inchicore works in Dublin.
The group concentrate on maintaining the heritage set of wooden bodied carriages, and recently they have turned their attention to a recently aquired rake of steel bodied Cravens carriages.
Here is some of the work that went into preparing No.1541 for its unveiling as part of the 'Dundalk 50' event in September 2008.


RPSI Photonews Image Tony , Barry and Jimmy can be seen hard at work on 1541, while Joe and David toil unseen on other parts of the coach. As with all our activities in the Dublin area the work was carried out exclusively by a team of dedicated volunteers.

RPSI Photonews Image After a lot of rubbing down, 1541 was ready to receive the first of many coats of undercoat.  Cooperative as ever, Iarnród Éireann had permitted the use of this raised platform for the project, which certainly made this stage of the work a lot easier.

RPSI Photonews Image Meanwhile, No. 1508 was receiving much attention to its interior, and being dramatically transformed into a bar car.

RPSI Photonews Image1541 is seen with windows masked off while being painted with its distinctive new blue livery.

RPSI Photonews Image Nearly finished - 1541 with lining, crests and lettering applied.

RPSI Photonews Image The result of many man-hours of hard work.

The RPSI's volunteers are a small group of people who achieve big things.  Every one of our main line steam trains requires many, many hours of work by dedicated people who use their spare time to do something really worthwhile, united by our love of our railway heritage and having many a good laugh along the way.

Why don't you join us?
View our Helping Us Page to see how YOU can volunteer in Dublin or Whitehead and get involved.

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